“Recently the health benefits of avocado have been advocated, with an increase in their popularity – and a consequent increase in related injuries,” David Shewring, vice-president of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, explained to The Times.

As a result, the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons is calling for 'safety labels' to be popped on avocados everywhere.

“People do not anticipate that the avocados they buy can be very ripe and there is minimal understanding of how to handle them,” said Simon Eccles, secretary of the association and former president of the plastic surgery section of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Adding that he treats four people a week for avocado-related injuries, he continued: “We don’t want to put people off the fruit but I think warning labels are an effective way of dealing with this. It needs to be recognisable.

“Perhaps we could have a cartoon picture of an avocado with a knife, and a big red cross going through it?”

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Strangely enough, Bye is not the only celebrity to have been afflicted by ‘avocado hand’: apparently our beloved Meryl Streep has fallen foul of the fruit as well. And Eccles has said that there are most likely countless of others, silenced by the shame of the manner they obtained their injuries.

Well, if it can happen to Streep, what hope is there for the rest of us? Maybe it’s time to ditch the avocado brekkie and focus on whipping up a plate of cloud eggs instead, eh?

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